Re: Mathematical Fraud?

For a fraudulent mathematics research paper to get past the refereeing
process multiple referees would have to be lax in their duty to check
the proofs carefully. Wiles's error in the first version of his paper
was found because a referee (Nicholas Katz?), who couldn't verify
something in the manuscript, communicated with Wiles to try to clear up
the matter. Interestingly, I think Katz had had a private seminar on
the paper from Wiles before the result was announced to the
mathematical community, and didn't notice the problem at that time. Of
course he wasn't refereeing it then.

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